Inverness firm Anderson Shaw & Gilbert joins Ledingham Chalmers

The deal, a part of the Aberdeen-headquartered agency’s nationwide development plans, creates a enterprise with round a £14 million annual turnover and headcount of 196 together with 29 companions.

All 19 ASG personnel will be a part of Ledingham Chalmers.

Ledingham Chalmers’ managing accomplice, Jennifer Younger, mentioned this deal is a crucial milestone in its technique to double its income to £25m by 2025.

ASG’s industrial property, company, rural, and personal consumer groups will commerce underneath the Ledingham Chalmers model with Joe Duncan becoming a member of as industrial property accomplice.

Its property company follow will retain its title, with Findlay Boyd as conveyancing accomplice, together with Iain McDonald as director.

Mrs Younger mentioned: “Strategic acquisitions are a part of our formidable development plans to double our income to £25million by 2025. This deal, bringing ASG’s extraordinarily well-respected industrial, company and personal consumer experience to our agency, is the most recent a part of our dedication to actively pursue acquisition and merger alternatives throughout Scotland — together with within the central belt — that add measurable worth to purchasers.

“Domestically, it’s a milestone within the evolution of our Inverness workplace the place our providing has grown during the last couple of years past what stays a powerful public sector consumer base, and specialised enterprise legislation follow, to the full-service mannequin that has served us so nicely in Aberdeen.”

Mr Boyd mentioned: “It is a mutually useful deal and provides ASG the chance to entry a bigger staff of solicitors offering a broader vary of recommendation in what’s a formidable service for purchasers starting from first-time patrons searching for a house, to multinationals contemplating international mergers and acquisitions.

“All purchasers can count on a seamless transition and we’ve already been in contact with them to allow them to know what they will count on over the approaching days and weeks, and that features persevering with to take care of their normal contacts.”